new member's welcome Mat

Hi and welcome.

I didn't know Eman was a forbidden topic too, live and learn. TBH, I didn't even establish any policy regarding clones and such, because people interested in Centaur Chess usually go for the strongest engines only, leaving anything else (be it a clone or derivative) outside their scope of interest. If you want to discuss that one, or any other you might feel is of use for analysis, be my guest. As long as it's posted on the appropriate sub-forum... if not don't worry, I'll point you to the right place or move it for you.

Speaking of organization, how do you feel about changing the name of this thread to "New Member's Welcome Mat"? Others might want to add their story, this is a typical thread in most forums, but as I said somewhere else, I didn't want to populate the forum with content, just the basics.

From the moment Ed started participating in the thread, I was suspicious of the question he chose to ask, I answered as if it were an honest one, but I could see inmediatly it was just a ruse to quickly fish out the dissonant elements. As he said shortly after, he didn't have much time to search for himself. That was as much rope as I was willing to give him and refrained to engage him anymore on that thread, not to the point of blocking him, like the other two MSM mouthpieces, but just practically ignoring him.

His post for de-blocking the thread speaks for itself, anyone can read it and draw their own conclusions, mine is clear, we won't have fair judgement there, so I invited several like-minded members to share their views and info here. Let's see for how long they endure the "official regime".

I've lived in Germany, and even though I was only there for 100 days, like with governments, I had enough to form an opinion, Germans don't like foreigners. Which is a pity because their country is beautiful and their women are, shall be say, interesting.

Politically, I'm of communist upbringing, and a member of the Spanish communist party myself, but I left when I saw they couldn't think for themselves.

Writing, as opposed to speaking, offers the luxury of time. Time to reflect on what you're doing, in that sense, not unlike chess, when you make a bad move or say something you later regret, it only becomes worse the more time you had to think about it.

On the other hand, anonymity gives you, in fact, the option to see people for what they are, because they no longer have to content with repercussions, they can simply go back to their real lives. Kant would have applied the hypothetical imperative to this kind of online behavior, no doubt.

I spoke too soon. I didn't expect him to turn it into an opera buffa. The new rule clearly expresses his view on freedom of speech (pretty much what passes for it in western countries anyway).

Not sure what you mean.

Bosnian and Albanian Nazi collaborators also came to life.

I am also a conspiracy theorist, especially since I saw the discrepancies between what was really happening here, in Yugoslavia/then Serbia, and how it was reported in the Western media.

Conspiracies not only exist, but I feel that lately, the ones ruling this world have lost all common measure with humanity. The nukes, the biolabs, the destruction of economy, it is all way beyond I could imagine just a few years ago. With each new info, new piece of the puzzle, I am more and more persuaded that they will try to do what they planned to do: decimate the human population, destroy countries and civilizations, transform Earth in a botanic garden for the "happy 1%", with robots serving them.

- Human neo-robots?
- I am convinced that they don't think so far.